PATTI SMITH Horses/Horses Live (1975/2005)

Horses Live(2005)
30 Years After

Saw her twice. First time, she fell off the stage and broke her neck. The second time was her triumphant return, as part of a radio station birthday party featuring opening act, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Because Petty’s “Breakdown” was in heavy rotation, the full house began to empty out starting with Smith’s first song, until only a few hundred were left by the end of the show. Truth be told, I was never a big Smith fan… that is, until the 2000 release of Gung Ho, which totally turned me around. For whatever reason, after 25+ years, Patti Smith finally made sense. My conversion brought me to the 2005, expanded, 30th Anniversary edition of Horses, which is where this bonus live disc, a re-creation of the original 1975 album, comes from. Featuring Tom Verlaine (Television) and Flea (Chili Peppers), alongside longtime PSG members, the great Lenny Kaye, Jay Dee Daugherty & Tony Shanahan. Find it at Amazon. Hear her blistering rendition of “Gloria,” below. We’ve updated this post to include both discs from the 30th Anniversary release, Horses (1975) and Horses Live (2005).

I loved Patti Smith back in the 70's and saw her several times; but I was completely blown away by how much more powerful her current band is and how confident she has grown as a performer. It's almost like what she did back then has served as a blueprint for her current work. I think often you need to separate what impact artists have on the culture at certain historical moments from the trajectory of their life work.

I've always loved her since Horses came out. I think it probably hurt her career that she was labelled as "punk" early on, when she actually came from a much more literate tradition, while still drawing on some of the raw energy that fuelled the punk scene.

If you have the live album from the French limited edition release of "Trampin'", I'd like to see that posted. Thanks.

In South America Patti Smith is an icon. We love her music, the way she sings, with her heart in every concert. She "lives" each song. She can be the most femenine girl wearing a man shirt , being natural in her thoughts and her look is a reflection of them. She could go further her personal tragedy (her husband, her brother and her friend Robert Mapplethorpe died in the 80) and came back , slowly but full of energy. Full of life. I love her music, Trampin', Horses, Easter….etc. The great writer Roberto Bolaño, nuestro querido hermano chileno has a new fan: Patti Smith. Guau!! and also Federico Garcia Lorca, she's always looking for art. And we look for her, because she is Art.Patti from Buenos Aires Argentina I send you all nuestro cariño!! tu tocaya Patricia

I saw Patti at the Santa Monica Pier, about a year ago. She did a free concert there. It was approaching the Pier's 100th. anniversary & she stopped in the midst of her show & said a prayer for the Pier. She put all her heart & soul into that show. She's a great. Thanx for this, AND ~ Dean Martin always had brilliant things to say, as well as sing.

In March the book was abridged to five fifteen minute episodes on BBC radio 4 and was read over the course of a week by none other than the great woman herself. If you missed it you missed a treat. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qzh56

I saw her once, 1978, Birmingham Alabama, a time and place where ‘punk’ meant a skinny tie and a Yankees cap. She was dragged off stage by burly Birmingham cops while making beautiful horrible shrieking noises on a clarinet. I had a great time.

Never heard the 2005 live set & am looking forward to checking it out. I saw Patti Smith several times during her heyday — I thought Tom Wheeler’s comment on this post had great merit — you can’t judge an artist in terms of their breakthrough moment (well, not if you want to understand where they were trying to take their music to in the first place).

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